Murky political groups are exploiting social media systems to spread disinformation. With important elections taking place around the world this year, who is pushing back? We meet grassroots groups in Africa and beyond who are using AI to tackle disinformation in languages and countries underserved by big tech companies.<a href="https://2022.internethealthreport.org/story/dismantling-disinformation-networks-justin-arenstein">Justin Arenstein</a> is the founder of Code for Africa, an organization that works with newsrooms across 21 countries to fact check, track and combat the global disinformation industry.<a href="https://2022.internethealthreport.org/story/ai-alone-wont-stop-misinformation-tarunima-prabhakar">Tarunima Prabhakar</a> builds tools and datasets to respond to online misinformation in India, as co-founder of the open-source technology community, Tattle.<a href="https://2022.internethealthreport.org/story/linking-up-with-integrity-teams-sahar-massachi">Sahar Massachi</a> was a data engineer at Facebook and now leads the Integrity Institute, a new network for people who work on integrity teams at social media companies. <a href="https://2022.internethealthreport.org/story/defusing-hate-speech-citizen-linguists-raashi-saxena">Raashi Saxena</a> in India was the global project coordinator of Hatebase, a crowdsourced repository of online hate speech in 98 languages, run by the Sentinel Project. IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 6, host <a href="https://getpocket.com/collections/ai-is-shaping-the-future-of-the-web-how-can-we-make-sure-its-for-the-better ">Bridget Todd</a> shares stories of people who make AI more trustworthy in real life. This season doubles as Mozilla’s <a href="https://2022.internethealthreport.org/">2022 Internet Health Report</a>. Go to the report for show notes, transcripts, and more.

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